Appendix 2
Status of EUFMD actions - update since the 37th Session
Actions/missions/events organized or supported by EUFMD Secretariat
1.
Meetings - under or relating to the Standing Technical Committee a.
Session of the Research Group of the Standing Technical Committee, 16-18 October, Cairo, Egypt. Output: Draft Report circulated.
b.
Working Group on FMD September, Salisbury, UK.
c.
NSP
Laboratory
biosafety
(under
the
Workshop: On the design and interpretation of serosurveillance by NSP tests, 5-7 June, Brussels, Belgium.
Research
post
Group),
FMD-vaccination
Organized by CODA- CERVA-VAR (Belgium) with funding from EUFMD Agreement), TAIEX, EPIZONE (DG-Research), CA-FMD &CSF (DG-Research). d.
27-28
(Letter
of
Workshop on Proficiency Testing and External Quality Control (workshop on ring trials
and proficiency testing), 20-21 November. Organized/supported as per NSP workshops, co-ordinated also with the Community reference laboratory annual meetings on SVD and FMD. 2.
Regional or Subregional meetings on FMD surveillance and control a.
Eastern Europe/CIS: FMD (and African swine fever) Control in Eastern Europe, 27 July, OIE Headquarters, Paris, France. Organized by OIE, under GFTADs Regional Steering Committee. EUFMD Secretary provided a paper on FMD epidemic events in the region; also attended by Dr Peter de Leeuw, Dr Alf-Eckbert Fuessel (SANCO) and Dr Carsten Potzsch (EUFMD). Meeting with OIE delegates from the 3 Transcaucasus countries followed. b.
Middle-east (excluding North Africa): GF-TADS Roundtable on FMD control in the MiddleEast (4th FAO/OIE Roundtable), 4-6 September 2007, Amman, Jordan. Attended by 13 countries from Middle-east (note North Africa), including one EU MS (Cyprus). Papers presented by Keith Sumption. Co-organized by the OIE regional representation for the ME, with FAO (EUFMD Secretariat and EMPRES); funding 50:50. Output: Meeting report.
c.
were
North Africa (Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania) Roundtable on FMD surveillance and control, 26 October, Rabat, Morocco. Organized by the FAO Subregional Animal Health Centre, Tunis. EUFMD provided 2 experts to lead technical discussions on FMD risk, and costs of questionnaire survey. First event for North African countries, previously meetings combined with Middle-east. Representation at CVO/senior VS level from above 6 countries, plus EU MS (Spain and Portugal). Output: Report.
d.
Transcaucasus (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia) Inception Workshop for the 3 countries, under the EC funded programme for maintenance of the buffer zone in the Transcaucasus, 9-10 October 2007, Tbilisi, Georgia. Attended: 3 countries, EUFMD Secretariat (Sumption/Potzsch), plus EC (Neighbourhood programme-Georgia/Armenia).
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